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Subordination Quotes

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Vladimir Nabokov
Curiosity, Form, Insubordination
"Reading Lolita in Tehran". Book by Azar Nafisi, 2003.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

Rosemary Radford Ruether
Generations, Taught, Subordination

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Philip Roth
War, Affection, Subordination
Philip Roth (2001). “The Dying Animal”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

Jorge Luis Borges
Subordination, Aspect, Universe
Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Stephen Gardiner
Egypt, Subordination, Subordinates
Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

Lewis Henry Morgan
Responsible, Subordination, Capitalism

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Ayn Rand
Sacrifice, Self, Subordination
Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

Andre Breton
Violence, Expect Nothing, Insubordination

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Samuel Johnson
Pleasure, Subordination, Reciprocal
Thomas M. Curley, Samuel Johnson (1998). “Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson”, p.550, Univ of Wisconsin Press

Money confounds subordination.

Samuel Johnson
Money, Subordination
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.234

The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wise, Military, Subordination

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

George Bernard Shaw
Subordination, Undisputed
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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